This is the first part of a blog series about the network configuration that I build for my VyOS VM’s. In an earlier blog “VyOS? What is VyOS and why I want to use VyOS!” I’ve already put my thoughts and created a design however this blog series will be more about the why but…
In the blog about “New Hardware” I’ve talked about my old server running Citrix XenServer. On the new servers I changed to VMware ESXi, but why did I switch vendor? First off: what do Citrix and VMware even do? Both Citrix XenServer and VMware ESXi are what we call a “hypervisor”. A hypervisor is software…
The hardware is now in the datacentre but there are various ways that the servers could be connected. This means planning the connections between the servers, from the server to the internet, and connecting power. In this blog, I’ll take you along in the design that I made on how to connect the servers. The…
On the 24th of September 2017, I’ve placed a single Dell PowerEdge R710 in the XS4ALL datacentre in Amsterdam. Now, three years later, it finally came to an upgrade. I already bought two newer servers (two Dell PowerEdge R720’s) and had them laying around since the end of 2017. Sadly, I never found the money…
